Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 15: Blinds 2,500/5,000, Ante 500
Players Remaining: 27/212
Average Stack: (~235,000 – 47 big blinds)

The tournament staff has just announced that two more hands will be dealt before the players bag and tag for the night.

Full chip counts will be available as soon as we get them.

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 15: Blinds 2,500/5,000, Ante 500
Players Remaining: 28/212
Average Stack: (~227,000 – 45 big blinds)

With the board reading , Michael Tait got his stack of 45,000 into the middle with for a ten-high straight. Muzaffer Yesilce had him covered and looked him up with for a pair of nines, as well an open-ended straight-flush draw.

The turn was safe for Tait, but the river gave Yesilce a queen-high straight to score the elimination.

Yesilce increased his stack to about 295,000.

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 13: Blinds 1,500/3,000, Ante 500
Players Remaining: 50/211
Average Stack: (~126,000 – 42 big blinds)

Here are the chip leaders after Level 12:

Peter Striano – 554,500 (184 bb)
Michael Chiappetta – 340,000 (113 bb)
Stuart Paterson – 320,000 (106 bb)
Robert Patrick Brown – 285,000 (95 bb)
Edward Keller – 245,000 (81 bb)
John Depersio – 240,000 (80 bb)

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 10: Blinds 800/1,600, Ante 200
Players Remaining: 65/198
Average Stack: (~91,000– 56 big blinds)

The players have returned from the dinner break and play has resumed. Registration remains open throughout the night and up until the beginning of Day 2 on Sunday (blinds will be 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante at that time).

Six more 40-minute levels will be played tonight before the surviving players bag and tag.

Registration is currently open for a $200 satellite with two seats guaranteed to the Deep Stack Poker Series Championship Event #4, which begins on Thursday, May 21st. Registration remains open until about 9:30pm.

For a look at the structure for tonight’s satellite, please click here.

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 10 (upcoming): Blinds 800/1,600, Ante 200
Players Remaining: 65/198
Average Stack: (~91,000– 56 big blinds)

The players are in the midst of a 40-minute dinner break. Play will resume at roughly 7:10pm.

Chip leaders after Level 9

Peter Striano – 466,500
Muzaffer Yesilce – 226,300
Bobby Bresner – 213,400
Steven Pollack – 211,100
Paul Balzano – 181,000
Kenneth Bruno – 164,000
Vladimir Kovalchuk – 160,800

Day 1A: $350 Deep-Stack No-Limit Hold’em with re-entries ($150,000 Guaranteed)
Level 9: Blinds 600/1,200, Ante 200
Players Remaining: 72/193
Average Stack: (~80,000 – 66 big blinds)

With the board reading , a player got his stack of about 47,000 into the middle with for top pair against Peter Striano who held for a set of threes.

Striano locked up the pot after the turn, but made quads for the third time today when the river completed the board.

That upped Striano’s stack to about 340,000 and he has since increased it further, currently sitting on a stack of roughly 370,000.